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Fantasy bands
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 4:41 pm
by julius
Name members of a modern big band you'd like to see:
John Clayton bass
Jeff Hamilton or Josh C. drums
Wynton Marsalis trumpet
Junior Mance or Jay McShann piano
Ken Peplowski clarinet
Howard Alden or Barry Zweig guitar
Wycliffe Gordon trombone
any others? it's hard filling out the horns!
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:35 pm
by Roy
Benny Powell, Frank Wess, and Franz Jackson added on horns.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:55 pm
by julius
Frank Capp on drums?
hmm.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 5:59 pm
by Shorty Dave
While I can't say no to Junior, I'd also have to add Oscar Peterson, Ray Bryant, and/or Paul Tillotson
Don't forget Clark Terry.
How 'bout Mickey Roker or Louis Bellson on Drums? (although Jeff really is amazing live)
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:09 pm
by Roy
Claude Fiddler Williams can play a song or 2.
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:06 pm
by Greg Avakian
Irene Reed or Freddy Cole or Ernie Andrews on vocals. Kevin Mahogany if he could stick to swing/blues. Blues singer + big band = Happy Greg
Sax: Illinois Jaquet, Benny Golson(?), David Fathead Newman, and I'd like to hear Houston Persons play jazz. Greg Piccolo was amazing when I saw him playing blues.and he told me he likes trad jazz.
Lenny Solomon on violin. There's a jazz violinist in NYC named Andy something. He sometimes plays on NPR. I saw him at a house party and he was great.
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 7:12 am
by LazyP
Gunhild Carling - Trombone (or trumpet, harmonica etc)
Max Carling - Violin (or clarinet)
If you ever get to Sweden or manage to catch them around in Europe, you just got to see and hear these siblings.
Re: Fantasy bands
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 10:14 am
by CafeSavoy
julius wrote:Name members of a modern big band you'd like to see:
John Clayton bass
Jeff Hamilton or Josh C. drums
Wynton Marsalis trumpet
Junior Mance or Jay McShann piano
Ken Peplowski clarinet
Howard Alden or Barry Zweig guitar
Wycliffe Gordon trombone
any others? it's hard filling out the horns!
Harry Allen, Tenor
Scott Hamilton, Tenor
Danny Moss, Tenor
Warren Vache, Cornet
Duke Hietger, Cornet
Ed Polcer, Cornet
Peter Ecklund, Cornet
Allen Vache, Clarinet
Dan Barrett, Trombone
Steve Turre, Trombone
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2004 12:49 pm
by shortyjul
good call, rayned. get on that.
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:58 pm
by julius
You mentioning Allen Vache reminds me of last year's Sweet and Hot, when Allen Vache and three other clarinetists (Bob Draga among them) got up and played with a rhythm section for the "Hot Licorice" event.
Now, for my money, there is no jazz instrument with a purer tone than a well-played clarinet. When the four reeds motioned for the rhythm section to drop out and all you could hear were four intertwining melodic lines, high and pure, it sent shivers through me. It was the most exalted I have heard any live jazz in a long time.